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CRUSTY ENGLISH BLOOMER BREAD
Crusty English Bloomer Bread. This is new to me. I went searching for a recipe for this bread and found a couple. I went with two different recipes. One using a pate fermentee and my regular bread...
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HOMEMADE CHILE SAUCE
Christmas Eve is approaching fast and I still needed to make the chile sauce that Moe loves to have on his Tourtiere. So yesterday I put a pot of the sauce on to simmer. The process takes about 6...
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CHRISTMAS EVE
Christmas Eve dinner. Our tradition – French Canadian Tourtiere. Filling made before I left for work on Sunday. Also made the All Butter Pastry. Didn’t take long to get the pastry rolled out and the...
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CHRISTMAS DINNER
I roasted a duck for our Christmas dinner. Using Ina Garten’s recipe. Which I have used a number of times before. Sides were potatoes roasted in duck fat, braised red cabbage and green beans. Roast...
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END OF THE YEAR POST
Another year comes to an end. Can’t believe how fast this year as gone. Going to try and be better about posting regularly to my blog in 2024....
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JANUARY 2024 – WEEK ONE
First dinner of 2024!!! We started the New Year off with an old favourite. Chateaubriand for Two. With Parisienne potatoes, steamed green beans, cauliflower and carrots for Moe, sautéed mushrooms and...
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JANUARY 2024 – WEEK TWO
Monday January 8th Baked a small Margherita Pizza for Moe and I to share. Dough had been in the fridge since Friday (Jan.5th) Moe wanted something sweet so I made him an Apple Kuchen. What is nice...
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JANUARY 2024 – WEEK THREE
MONDAY JANUARY 15TH Sourdough Bake. Dough started on Saturday with a Pate Fermentee and left in the fridge until last night. Baked this morning. Two batards baked under the Spun Iron Cloche and the...
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Baguettes
Yesterday’s bake. Fed my starters Thursday and just tossed 80g of the discard into: 1000g of flour. 660g water (66% hydration) 1g of yeast (basically just a pinch) 15g of salt. I have had to reduce...
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SOURDOUGH BAKE
I took pictures of this batch of dough for a FB friend that I shared my starter with. I fed my sourdough starter Thursday night and made two levains, with 55g of discard in each of them. Left the...
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